The Russian Orthodox Church on Friday called on the United Nations, the leaders of Germany and France, the pope and other spiritual leaders to protect believers in Ukraine in the face of pressure on Moscow-affiliated clerics.

Pope Francis has removed two cardinals from his informal cabinet after they were implicated in the Catholic Church’s sex abuse and cover-up scandal, shedding embarrassing advisers ahead of a high-stakes Vatican summit on abuse early next year.

A California appeals court affirmed a $4 million judgment against the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society of New York, for failing to produce court-ordered documents involving sexual battery and four forms of negligence.

Snow made from reclaimed wastewater for an Arizona ski resort won’t cause the Hopi Tribe any nuisance beyond what the general public would suffer despite the presence of sacred sites nearby, the Arizona Supreme Court ruled Thursday.

The appeal for former Catholic priest John Feit, convicted last year of murdering his former parishioner nearly 60 years ago, could be thrown out before any arguments supporting his decades-long claim of innocence are developed in court because a brief hasn’t yet been filed.

A U.S. citizen who is Muslim and wears a hijab claims in a federal complaint that a border patrolman at the San Ysidro, Calif., crossing seized her cellphone and threw her U.S. passport in the trash. She was strip-searched, kicked, called a “sand nigger,” and her passport was not returned, according to the complaint.

A lawsuit brought against Hasidic Jewish organization by chicken advocates over the ritual killing of chickens between the high holy days should have been tossed for lack of standing and injury, the Ninth Circuit ruled Tuesday.

Faced with no clear statutory procedure in Tennessee to exhume the body of a priest it hopes to canonize, the Roman Catholic Church in Tennessee asked a court in Chattanooga to cut through ambiguous law.

In a $50 million federal copyright suit Thursday, the Satanic Temple says Netflix and Warner Brothers used their copyrighted depiction of the androgynous goat-headed deity Baphomet to represent evil antagonists in the series “The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina.”

Long-term officers and congregants of the Chelsea synagogue Congregation Emunath Israel claim in court that their rabbi of six years held a disco in the sanctuary, broke the laws of the sabbath and funds a lavish lifestyle with donations meant for building renovations, among other alleged misdeeds.